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# the other place

phrase (noun phrase, «the other place»)

«the other place» in the English dictionary: in the primary school — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In the primary school

Source: Mova's pupils' dictionary. Licence: [Elamur Cosmic License](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/LICENSE/). Reviewed: the dictionary the pupils of Mova's primary school read; its examples quote the lessons and public-domain tales. Ships with Mova.

### Meaning

1. (euphemism, old-fashioned) hell, the opposite of heaven.
2. (UK) what Oxford people call Cambridge and Cambridge people call Oxford; what one House of Parliament calls the other.
3. (literal) another place.

### In the lessons

Old-fashioned speakers avoided saying «hell» and said «the other place». In Britain it has polite insider senses: MPs speak of the House of Lords as «the other place», and Oxford and Cambridge students call each other's university that, as a gentle rivalry joke.

### Examples

- (old sermon) Be good, or you'll end up in the other place!
- (joke) "Is he going to heaven?" "More likely the other place."
- (Parliament) As was said in the other place yesterday…
- (Oxford student) We beat the other place at rowing again.
- (literal) This shop is closed, so let's try the other place.
- (story) The ghost said he had come back from the other place.

### Note

Trap: usually it simply means «another place». Only in old religious talk is it hell, and in British clubs or Parliament it is the rival institution. Look at who is speaking.